And so It began that Halanda began to live the dream.
Being the head warrior of the Zaruci's army came with several immense privileges.
She had all access to guide the princess and this enabled her to keep a close watch on her.
Halanda also had regard and preferential treatment anywhere she went.
She marveled at how the land courtesans who controlled the ladies of the night warmed up to her at night.
While she recklessly indulges and plays along to their coquettish moves.
She also ensures to give the body and her soul is housed in a well-deserved pleasure with the ladies of the night and at times while in the act.
She sometimes wishes Gilk was here himself to enjoy what she used his body to perpetuate.
At this time her pain had gotten worse and she could hardly sleep these days as the collector is the one who visits her in her dream to afflict her.
Her body grows weaker by the day.
Notwithstanding, she is not bothered anymore.
Her second plan has already been put in motion.
She only needs to bid her time before conducting the rites of transferring her soul to a new body; the body of princess Zaruci.
Collins decides not to rush and tell Edward the information he needs.
He decides to interrogate him a bit.
'Edward you need to understand, Laura is one of my closest clients, you need to tell me what you know first, and why is she in danger
Edward looks around the room briefly almost as if he was in search of something hidden.
He faces the therapist and studies him a bit.
'None of this is a coincidence, you are part of the circle
Collins is now more confused than ever
He has begun to lose his patience but refrains from chastising him, as it would be unethical.
'What circle are you talking about the son, perhaps I think you are suffering from trauma phobia illusions and this your mind create a device mechanism to avoid facing your trauma' Collins said as he jots down his notes.
No!!!! I am not crazy yelled Edward, this is why I do not want to speak to anyone ever, they treat me like some anomalous teenager and I find it preposterous'
Collins realizing the atmosphere is getting tense decided to break the ice.
Ignoring Edward's outburst he pressed on after a while.
'I am quite captivated by your drawings, and I see you have got lots of them he looked up and saw Edward's face relax a bit before he continued '
'So tell me everything I need to know and I will believe you
A doubtful Edward responded 'promise'
Collins smiled reassuringly and said 'promise' and while they were at it, forces were at work watching both of them discuss.
We see a dark silhouette wooly figure with its wings spread like vines all across the environment.
Breathing slowly and watching from the top of a tree beside the window for a few moments before he becomes evanescent into thin air as if he was never there.
Both Edward and Collins have an extensive conversation about what is going on and the things Edward had seen, this way he begins to understand him more.
Both realize Laura is in more danger than it seems.
Edward was born a gifted kid who excelled a lot in their works of art.
He drew a lot of things and most of these were pretty normal, however, things began to take a different turn when he clocked the age of five.
He realized he could see visions, pictures, and images of things to draw.
Initially, he thought it was normal until he started seeing more in-depth.
Some of his visions soon began to happen.
He once drew how his elder brother Donald died.
Crushed under a trunk with a slimy giant creature tailing him.
A few months before his death he kept drawing the images in his visions with d every new sketch of his, this creature drew closer.
The creature had fangs.
it was huge and very slimy, and it left a trail of red-purple matter.
Greasy and wet everywhere it went, its eyes lay at the front of his feet while it possessed several arms and could change its shape.
Edward tried to tell his elder brother but Donald was not one to believe in things he cannot see or prove.
He simply saw Edward as this his 'silly little bro 'who is always seeing weird things.
He became more reckless and savage as time went on before his eventual death.
His death influenced Edward's drastic change at school in a massive way.
He hates himself and he felt he could have saved his brother in some way.
Though he does not know how.
Months later, he was still seeing visions of his brother who was a ghost and now seemed to be trying to tell him something.
In one of his sketches, he drew a picture of his brother trying to fight the slimy giant creature who was at this time pursuing him.
In another of his vision flashes, he saw himself running while the giant slimy creature pursues him in the company of some other horned giant creatures.
All of them hold a gandasa tool as a weapon.
They looked very bloodthirsty and ferocious.
He became scared and he realized he had no one to talk to as his parents do not believe him.
He has been trying to tell them about the things that he sees before his brother's death.
However, they think he is all just imagining things and that his visions were more like delusions.
The high lords called Orion to a brief meeting, another peripatetic had been noticed among the ruins of time and space by the guardians of balance.
This has been brought to their attention, different from the hideous man who lurked in the shadows of the past with whom Orion's path crossed while swooshing through time.
This creature is not in any way human and they cannot seem to fathom its identity yet.
But Orion has been summoned to find this being and hand him over to the guardians for appropriate discipline.
He also decides with himself to find the human who had the gift of time traveling, a human who has broken the law of the realms and engaged in high degree sorcery.
This creature seems to be getting closer to the Avalon and that has never happened in centuries.
Kess's body has finally been found dead.
Bludgeoned to death.
With his body swollen while floating up on a small seaside.
Via is extremely mad at her henchmen, even though they keep saying his body was buried.
She shoots them both in the head cause she believes someone must have seen them and dug the body out to be found.
Before his demise, Kess was owed some huge debts due to his reckless way of spending and his impetuous lifestyle.
Some gang had been threatening him before his death and now the police have a lot on their hands as regards his murder.
Tony Sparkle had been up and doing as regards curbing the crime rate in this city.
He still had a long way to go as he realized there were different pieces to the crime puzzle.
He had just been congratulated on the big consignment case that he was able to stop.
Also, getting some of the perpetrator's things took a tragic turn of events.
Some of the men arrested began to turn up dead.
Some others would refuse to talk out of fear and the ones who tried to did not get to survive much inside the cell.
This brought him to the realization of how deep what he was dealing with is.
He has been receiving strange notes in his office and apartment over the last few days as regards the Kess case.
At first, he speculated that these two cases were connected to the same person.
Upon closer investigation and scrutiny.
He realized it was a separate ball game, as Kess was not in any way connected to Simon whom they had still been unable to arrest.
Tony had received instructions from the powers that be to drop the case or risk losing his job.
A development that had left him more provoked than shocked.
He, however, realized thaKess'sss connection is to Alexander.
Simon's opponent is contesting for the post of mayor and who just buried his father of late.
He realized Kess's once had a fiancee who was having an affair with Alexander called Taymie.
Which reminded him of Taymie's disappearance, and the sad truth about how she was never found.
'She was just simply 'gone'.
Simon on the other hand had been on the hunt for Laura.
He had been able to identify her as the reason his consignment was seized.
This, he has been following her for a while stealthily.
Getting one of his men to put a tracker in her car and a mini camera in her home discreetly placed and hidden so she won't suspect a thing.
Laura on her part knows what is coming for her.
She had also been researching Simon.
In the process, she bled on many dead-end cases.
Most of the cases involving Simon never really make it to court, another strange observation.
They die a slow and silent death with the witnesses turning up dead or suddenly vanishing without a trace.
She checked her phone and received a message from her therapist, Collins informing her of the need to talk to her and how pertinent it is for them to meet as soon as possible.